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A Renaissance by Stephen Whetzel Page 1 of 12 It started with a visit to the psychologist. Behind the ominous, gray, concrete wall surrounding the Indiana State Reformatory, not many areas existed where one could go to in order to escape the late summer heat. That old maximum-security prison, a place born of a harsher time, was never known for comforts. Therefore, whether or not I felt the need for a counseling session with Eric, my psychologist and substance abuse counselor, I looked forward...

Celldweller Journal: "Fractured mirror of society" (Publish) Author: Sekou Jamaa Askari VI date: 8-15-13 "Black August" (Entry fifteen) After being captured and convicted, Essay's I've been engaged in the adventure's of trying to understand how this world really truly works, every since -- being enrolled into California's Institutions of 'higher education'. Where my re-educational' journey first began at. We can all get an education at a ...

Levert III (Sekou) Brookshire Arizona Celldweller journal: Fractured mirror of society pt. 7 - entry 16 This degeneration, that I describe to you, Eventually leads us to their social garbage disposal system, They Have created for disposing of their 'expendable', 'non-contributing', 'non-voting', 'non-tax-paying' citizen's. Converting us into 'Livestock', 'cattle' herds, charging the taxpayers, 40k a head, for our upkeep and main...

Celldweller Journal; "Fractured mirror of society" 'Publish' Author: Sekou Jamaa Askari date: 8-17-13 "Black August" (Entry seventeen) Each and every one of us, cell dweller's has a personal and unique story to tell. In light of everything that I've said here in, my translation or interpretation of the black male's experience. Here inside these pages, I only attempt to lay-out the heart of the problems, and my understanding of the answers. There wi...

Levert III "Sekou" Brookshire Arizona Word Count: 267 Author: Sekou Jamaa Askari date: 8-7-13 Celldweller Journal: "I Lost it all, but Found Myself" "Black August Essay's" (Entry Seven) Nobody sets-out, 'planning' to fail at what they do, yet we often set-out 'failing' to plan what we do? The consequences for that, can singlehandedly cost us our lives, or freedom, and all of our possessions, even those we lack. What I've learned is, ...

1 Levert III “Sekou” Brookshire Arizona Word Count: 171 Celldweller Journal: “Man Cannot Live by Words Alone” “Black August Essay’s” (Entry One) I pick-up this ink-pen & paper, I become truly ‘free’, nothing limit’s me, restrict’s me or contains me. I rule this ‘dominion’. It can take me anywhere my mind will guide-it, it’s the one place that I become the true ‘master of my fate’ and the ‘captain of my destiny’. No matter the status assigned to me by the status quo. When, I am depositing ...

Being a 'Celldweller University' alumni has been from, the 'beginning' and always will be a constructive, positive, alternative to the usual 'corrossive'; negative mindset, that permeates the prison environment. For years I walked these yards and looked at all these faces, contorted, twisted and full of anger. Everyday men, fighting and rioting, causing harm to each other, conflicting and competing for mere crumbs out of desperation. Prisoners 'sinking'...

We often 'think' we can control our future, even when we are swimming 'upstream' against the current. But, whenever we 'clear' our heads, detox our body's, get our 'thinking' back in-order, we start to 'float' along with current of life, effortlessly. 'Black August' gives me time to remind myself, about, my own personal power to gain balance again, re-gain physical, mental and emotional health again. Through fasting it makes me,...

Levert III "Sekou" Brookshire "Publish" Arizona Word Count: 347 Author: Sekou Jamaa Askari date: 8-9-13 Celldweller Journal: "The Royal Game" "Black August Essay's" (Entry Nine) Whenever I'm asked, what are my plans for the future, or more specifically, what are my plans for when I get released from prison? My answer is always's strange for the person asking the question. Because they pause, and look at me puzzeled. "When I tell them...

1 Levert III “Sekou” Brookshire Arizona Word Count: 258 Celldweller Journal: “Tools Helping Underground Society Inc – T.H.U.G.S Inc Movement Pt. I” “Black August Essay’s” (Entry Eighteen) It has alway’s been a vision of mine, to take everything I’ve learning about social ‘resistance’, and ‘revolutionary’ theory, and pass-it-on. Spreading what was passed-on to me, by those who came before-me. I, know of many young black men, who haven’t been introduced to George Jackson or Jonathan Jackson. Se...

Levert III "Sekou" Brookshire Arizona Word Count: 297 Celldweller Journal: Tools Helping Underground Society Inc – T.H.U.G.S Inc Movement Pt. III" "Black August Essay's" (Entry Twenty) Once we got the youth to come around and make a committment to a revolutionary beliefsystem, pursuading them to 'recruit' other youth into our belief system. Then, we were able to effectively harnest other peoples willingness to volunteer their time, resources and action ...

Whether I was here. Dwelling in this 'cell' or outside dwelling in the 'ghetto,' the same amount of time [illegible] passed me by, 10 1/2 years, would've elapsed regardless. Regardless of our wherebout's, 'time' is all the same. Think about it, if I did nothing to better myself or improve myself, out there in society, for these past 10 1/2 years? If staying alive, is all I did? Yet while I'm here, I obtained (two) college degrees, became physically...

Levert III "Sekou" Brookshire Arizona Word Count: 274 Author: Sekou Jamaa Askari date: 8-6-13 Celldweller Journal: "We All, are Followers of Something" "Black August Essay's" (Entry Six) Words, make 'books' what they are; 'book's' make library's and library's make school's and university's, or celldweller univeristy's. Each of these, make us more informed and more educated. Some follow 'fashion', ma...

Levert III "Sekou" Brookshire Arizona Word Count: 347 Date: 8-2-13 Celldweller Journal: "Words Alone Aren't Enough" "Black August Essay's" (Entry Two) We all have the power to change our own attitudes whether in prison or the streets. Regardless, if we are 'ghettodwellers', or 'celldweller's'. Before, any of us can start to consider changing our ways, changing our behaviors and attitudes we have to start by changing our thinking...

1 Word Count: 2347 B.G. Jacobs New York Food For Thought Lying on an uncomfortable, two-inch vinyl mattress, in a stifling prison cell, I was at peace for the first time in a long time. Eyes closed, my mind was centered on one thought: what can I use for an ersatz flour to make dough? (Pastelios were in my immediate future.) I was finally away from the stress and madness of prison and safely locked away in my thoughts of food. Cooking is a way for me to both relieve stress and express myself....

HOUSE OF CARDS by William Ridenour April of 2014, The Sizzler newsletter published the article "Justice for All," in which Mr. Drexell Greene ' s experiences with the parole board were a featured topic . The sister of Mr. Greene sent a copy of that article and her cover letter to Ohio Senator Bill Seitz, requesting that he investigate her brother's recent parole hearing. Senator Seitz contacted the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction ("ODRC") and req...

JUSTICE FOR ALL By William Ridenour According to a report in the Columbus Dispatch Newspaper on April30, 2012, there were over 4,700 prisoners still incarcerated in Ohio who were sentenced under the law in effect prior to 1997 ("Old Law"}. This figure is unlikely to change according to the chairwoman for the Ohio Parole Board, Ms. Cynthia Mauser, "because we're 16 years from Senate Bill 2, most people suitable for parole have already been released." (Source: The Colum...